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| Photo by Calvin Bradshaw from Wikimedia Commons |
Here follows my second ever installment of things I learned today:
- There is such a thing as a lunar rainbow, or 'moonbow'.
- An e-petition has achieved enough signatures to crash the e-petition website. (E-petitions were originally launched in the UK as far back as 2006.)
- Apparently, Julianne Moore was supposed to star in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, but was fired because she wanted to wear a fatsuit and a fake nose.
- Over 4,000 different people have successfully reached the top of Mount Everest.
- Italy is set to sign up to China's new trillion dollar 'Silk Road' trading scheme, putting it at odds with most of western Europe.
- A local councillor from Cambridge has finally quit after living in Scotland for 10 months. Officially, he only had to attend a council meeting once every 6 months.
- A car broke the sound barrier back in 1997.
- Hertfordshire Council is going to auction 60% of its modern art collection.
- Plymouth is now home to the UK's largest bronze statue, which is based on an actor rehearsing for Othello.
- Prince Albert of Monaco competed 5 times in the bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics.
- Jay-Z's nickname 'Hova' is a reference to Jehova ('J-Hova').
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